Imbody

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Imbody \Im*bod"y\, v. i. [See {Embody}.]
     To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material
     body. See {Embody}.
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           The soul grows clotted by contagion,


           Imbodies, and imbrutes.                  --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. i.
     To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
     [Written also {imbody}.]
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           Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embodied}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Embodying}.]
     To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a
     body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to
     embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also {imbody}.]
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           Devils embodied and disembodied.         --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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           The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided
           from sin.                                --South.
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